Unfortunately, the access to comprehensive menstrual education is not yet inclusive nor equally accessible for everyone. The practices of menstrual hygiene are widely affected, if not restricted, by norms, family influence, and socioeconomic status. Misconceptions and ostracization of women and girls who are menstruating affect how one would go on about their day while menstruating. Menstrual blood is seen as taboo in some many countries, even being seen carrying sanitary products without an effort to conceal it is considered obscene. It is expected from women as their moral imperatives to keep menstrual cycle in secret. The secrecy revolving menstruation is not only expected as a part of modesty, some cultures believe that period blood can be used for witchcraft.

 

The reckoned effects are infertility or even death. It is important to note then that education plays critical role when positive period conversations are expected from the younger generations. These socio cultural restrictions affect how menstrual sanitary products are being disposed. 

 

Most women prefer to dispose of their used sanitary products into solid domestic waste, bury it, or discard it into pit latrines. The lack of disposal sites also leads to unhygienic methods, such as wearing menstrual products way over its healthy due hours, causing major health impacts; toxic shock syndrome even reproductive tract infection.